Professions: Deputy group operations officer of the 474th Fighter Bomber Group in World War II, flying sixty-one combat missions; remained in Europe on General Eisenhower's staff after the war; served in the Pentagon; taught economics at West Point for four years; assigned as vice dean and professor of economics at the Air Force Academy in 1954; appointed dean of faculty at the Air Force Academy in 1956; appointed the first permanent dean of faculty and promoted to brigadier general by President Eisenhower in 1959; chairman and chief executive officer of the United Services Automobile Association.
Degrees: Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1943; M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, 1950 (received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award in 1998.)
Death: August 28, 2006, of complications from a stroke.
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